Strategist - Sleep & Respiratory Care (S&RC)

Philips; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Philips is seeking a Strategist for Sleep & Respiratory Care to drive growth by identifying new opportunities, shaping business strategies, and bringing innovative solutions to market. You will assess markets, build business cases, and craft value propositions that support launches and sustained performance.

You will lead cross-functional teams across Innovation, R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing, and Sales, ensuring regulatory alignment, pricing strategies, and robust go-to-market execution.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in an international business environment in product management, marketing or related strategic role.
• Exposure to Regulatory frameworks (FDA, EU MDR) and Reimbursement considerations.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in business/engineering/marketing or equivalent.
• Strong skills in market assessment, financial modeling, business case development, and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

• Identify market opportunities across Sleep & Respiratory Care segments and shape growth strategies.
• Own end-to-end product lifecycle: roadmap, business cases, value propositions, launches, and commercial success.
• Develop product and claims strategies leveraging market insights, regulatory requirements, and stakeholder input.
• Lead cross-segment growth initiatives and support regional marketing and sales with strategic guidance.
• Ensure PDLM compliance and align upstream marketing with global positioning.

Skills

Market assessment

Financial modeling

Business case development

Portfolio strategy

Commercial growth planning

Stakeholder management

Communication

Facilitation

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree in business administration, Marketing, Engineering, Product Management or equivalent

Job description

Job Title: Strategist - Sleep & Respiratory Care (S&RC)

Job Description: Strategist - Sleep & Respiratory Care (S&RC), will drive strategic growth across the Sleep & Respiratory Care portfolio by identifying new market opportunities, shaping business strategies, and bringing innovative solutions to market.

Your role:

Market opportunity assessment

Identify and develop growth opportunities across sleep and respiratory care segments, including new business models, market adjacencies, monetization strategies, and portfolio expansion opportunities. Analyzes market trends, competition, and segment technologies at an enterprise level to ensure the portfolio meets market needs and expectations, while developing and maintaining customer segmentation requirements based on global market insights and supported by Market Intelligence.

Cross-segment growth initiatives and commercial strategy

Lead cross-segment growth initiatives and commercial strategy, aligning portfolio plans with business objectives and market opportunities. Own the end-to‑end product lifecycle, including roadmap development, business cases, value propositions, launch readiness, and commercial success, ensuring financial viability and on‑time delivery. Develop and execute product and claims strategies by leveraging market insights, competitive intelligence, regulatory requirements, customer needs, and KOL partnerships. Drive new product development and launches in collaboration with Innovation, R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales, and external partners, ensuring strong market adoption and differentiation. Accountable for business case realization, commercial performance, technical simplicity, and development of clinical, economic, and technical claims roadmaps. Support regional marketing and sales teams as a subject matter expert through strategic guidance, training, and go-to‑market enablement. Optimize product profitability and market penetration through collaboration with regional centres of excellence and key stakeholders. Ensure compliance with Product Development Lifecycle Management (PDLM) processes and standards throughout development and commercialization. Define upstream marketing strategies and align global market positioning to support short‑and long‑term business goals and KPI achievement. Provide expert oversight for product testing and validation protocols to ensure reliable evaluation and continuous improvement.

You're the right fit if:

You’ve acquired 10+ years of experience in an international business environment in the field of product management, marketing, or related commercial/strategic role in medical devices or health technology. Exposure to Regulatory frameworks (FDA, EU MDR) and Reimbursement considerations. You have a Bachelor's/ master’s degree in business administration, Marketing, Engineering, Product Management or equivalent. Your skills include market assessment, financial modeling, business case development, portfolio strategy, and commercial growth planning. You bring experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, business development, or startup environments and can translate insights into actionable growth initiatives. You have strong stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills, enabling you to effectively lead cross‑functional collaboration and influence decision‑making.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. This role is part of our office‑based team, requiring in‑person collaboration at least three days per week in office.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won’t stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

#LI-PH1 #LI-OFFICE #ConnectedCare At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health‑tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life. For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health. Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.

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